This is an analysis of the poem Sonnet Iii: Taking My Pen that begins with:
Taking my pen, with words to cast my woe,
Duly to count the sum of all my cares, ... full text
Elements of the verse: questions and answers
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- Rhyme scheme: ababbcbcdcXcdd
- Stanza lengths (in strings): 14,
- Closest metre: iambic pentameter
- Сlosest rhyme: rima
- Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
- Guessed form: sonnet with iambic pentameter or irregular meter
- Metre: 1011010111 1001010111 1111010001 01001010001 11010011010 0100111111 01011110110 1101011011 1111010011 1101010111 1111110100 1111101101 1101110101 1101010111
- Amount of stanzas: 1
- Average number of symbols per stanza: 594
- Average number of words per stanza: 112
- Amount of lines: 14
- Average number of symbols per line: 42 (strings are more long than medium ones)
- Average number of words per line: 8
Mood of the speaker:
The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.
The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; my, to are repeated.
The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word and is repeated.
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